BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
NEWFANE-Rev. Matthew Deen, settled pastor at Newfane Congregational Church, has been ordained by the Windham-Union Association of the Vermont Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC). Deen has been the licensed pastor here since 2022. His installation took place on Sunday, May 26. On Sunday, June 30, parishioners will celebrate the church's 250th anniversary with an outdoor service and celebration on Newfane Hill - or Fane Hill, as it was called on June 30, 1774, the date the congregation...
Former Brattleboro Reformer parenting columnist Diana Whitney announces the launch of her first book, “Wanting It,” published by Harbor Mountain Press. “Wanting It” has enjoyed strong pre-reviews from award-winning poets such as Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, who writes, “Readers will scarcely miss the erotic element in Diana Whitney's saucily entitled and brilliant book... Her hungry heart and eye invade her entire universe to such an extent that, if it did not exist, we should have to invent the adjective...
It was 1991. I was 56 and I needed a job. I had a 30-plus year gap in my resume, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy in a recession to find one. I had been a stay-at-home mom and now was on my own. Everything in my life had to be put on hold while I found a job. When I walked into the Vermont Department of Employment and Training, it was just by chance. I had...
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